The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-29

| friend.
"What constitutes state ?" said he proud
| ", "Men who their duties know, but know
their rights; and knowing, dare maintain.
owe have good people, sir. Leok at that
! grand old gentleman, Mr.. Dunlap now past
| four score years and is the accepted leader OF
the Sabbath school and the best singer IN the
town, and exemplary in all the virtues that
belong to Christian gentleman. lie Is sam,
pie Of our people. He leads and they follow.
Then we have the site Of the old Mesoopotamia
church, the Oldest church in this region, ana
near it is the old grave yard.
"Where the rude fore-fathers of the hamlet
sleep" There is history buried there-history
those people did not worship Mammon. no.
sir; they worshipped God" BILL ARP
sNAPPY AND sCRAPPY.
Nc,c Orleans Picoyune: The waves of old ocean
are by no means ready to sleep when they put their
white caps on.
Boston Courier; Has pig any use for tail?
asks an inquisitive agricultural contemporary we
don't know, but we should say the man who wants
to cath pig has.
Chicago Tribune: A father in Duquesna, Pa, has
named his first-born Thomas Benton schnaterly
Boyle Cleveland Genius of Liberty Flemming, If
the boy lives he will be an anarchist and no right
minded person can blame him for it.
SomeyUElG Jouraal: People who have studied into
the origin Of phrases all agree that the saying, 81
woman never acknowledges corn, matter in
what condition husband may find his pet razor
l0iikers Statesman. Millions of eggs are imported
to this country every year But they are not for
table purposes 50 much as for platform uses Some
thing stronger than the American egg is needed for
Lecturers nowadays.
Ptts1urg Chronicle: "What decoration scandal is
this that the soninlaw OF the French president Is
involved in?" asked Mrs Snaggs
Decorations" replied Snaggs. ooh, suppose he
has been pointing h te4rn red"
1l3osOn Courier: "AIith Thmith," he asked, as he
drew up his collar and adjusted his single eyeglass,
edo you believe in the DarWnan theory, believe
that man is defended from monkey?'
'No,' she replied surveying him from head to
foot, Il believe the very reverse
brakes Magazine; Even at S7,0G0a year a judges
life is full of trials
Binghamton Leader: The best waiter at board
inghouse is, not infrequenty the boarder.
Boston Gazette; A man in this city calls his wife
Ann Archy because she is always blowing him up.
PiHsburg Chronicle: The president of q knitting
company has defaulted and disappeared. AS for
the stockholders he socked it to them.
Louisville C0urier-Jouraol; There has been an in
crease of desertion from the army, but the commits
stoned officers appear to be all there.
Netc Orleans Picoy1ne: man cannot remember
n thing by FASTING it in his hat The FASTING does
not prevent the man from forgetting his hat, paste
and all.
NorristoUn Herald: Some one says that pocket
book is an awkward thing for lady to handle. All
the same if the pocketbook is full she handles 1t so
vigorously and successfully that it feels mighty
weak when she gets through with it.
CharlestolR Enterprise; Wants the earth-a
corpse
Exchanges You can smell some mems "smiles''
even when you can't see them.
Moraing Journal "Good sport, Tommy" ooh,
fair. Shot COW and an old woman, Both doing
we'll"
Ciarlesto,rn Enterprise: Why is a small boy like
a drum? Because the harder you beat it the more
noise it makes.
Lie: Considering the price of fashionable bon
nets, we begin to think the word millionaire" is
but corruption of milliner.
Somerrae Journal: Volapuk, the new world Ian
guage has but one swear word. Some inventors
don't seem to have any common sense.
Lo,ceU Courier: Princess Beatrice has daughter.
The list of dependents upon the British tax payers
grows large by degrees and beautifully more.
Boston Transcript: Scientists say that the savage
has more acute sense of smell than civilized peo-
pie. When two saYages get together how they must
suffer!
PHILADELPHIA Call; 1t is said that Queen Victoria
never accepts poetry unless it is enclosed in rare
casket or vase That is capital idea for some OF
our country newspapers
Chicago Tribune: Kentucky jury has acquitted
a man named Pendulum of murder, and so he won't
have to swing,
Picayp,ne: The man who complains of free
lunch should go buy the board.
Ntg Hdrea Ne,os: 1t is said that the pet dogs of
Fifth avenue are soon to have club. Let it be a
heavy one.
Ne,o Orleans Times Democrat: The Congregation
alis recently published satircal article on the
evils of smoking entitled: Sought Not Women to
Smoker The satire, however, was not perceived
by o number of constant readers and cold sub
scrbers" who wrote to the editor eXpostuatng
with him for advocating the use of tobacco by
women.
Frcharqe A little curly headed girl was walking
about one Sunday afternoon in her garden. A little
neighbor called to her to come over and play. She
refused, but upon being urged to come looked up
with quite sad and indignant face and exclaimed
"What! pay on Sunday? Don't you know this is
Gods day, and it's the only day he's got?"
Cincinnati Telegram: A few mornings since, at
breakfast in a rich Clifton home little tot para-
wed his maternal progenitor by exclaiming: "Mam-
ma, love you better than love oatmeal"
do you love that much, dear?' was the tender
rejoinder.
well, amt stuck on il"
Frchanoe: An Ohio preacher visiting in Boston
asked bright woman there about her religious be-
lief He was shocked to find that she didn'tseem to
have any. CHOW can you be happy without alth?'
he asked. Doesn't your womanly nature demand
a belief in something" ooh, yes" she answered,
"and give absolute belief to each Boston craze as
long es it lasts and that not only satisfies the de-
mands of my womanly nature for faith, but also for
Variety
Erclanqe: Clarence" exclaimed his mother,
"come to me quickly, dear How pale you are.
How strangely you look. You are i'll. smell tobac-
co. oh, Clarence, you have tobacco heart"
Clarence shook his head aud gasped feebly.
Nome" he said, moving away in the direction OF
the lonely COW barn; "nome faint my heart" And
with white, compressed lips he was gone behind
the barn. not lost but gone behind; though lost TO
sight, to memory and other faculties quite alto
gether perfectly audible.
Burdete;
Ills yankee feet are on our shore,
Sool o'vhan, our Sool o'yhAn!
He's come to tap the British gore,
Sool o'Yhan our Sool o'vhan!
Let Bisors William hunt his hole;
His fame is now broken bowl
one man alone charms Englands soul,
Sool ovhan, our Sool o'vhan!
Baltimore Americdm Said an aged matron 10 me
once: when my cousin William came home from
his three years cruise his blue cloth suit with brass
buttons looked very old-fashioned, and l said
Cousin William you should buy yourself some new
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